#rlsday — Public Fediverse posts

“How if this be the truth – that all are a little true?”

Stevenson’s FABLES offer what the author called “tail-foremost moralities”. In this presentation for the Beshara Trust, Robert-Louis Abrahamson considers the FABLES as “contemplative wisdom”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMmNPS6t9Aw

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #fantasy #shortfiction #shortstories #flashfiction

Robert Louis Stevenson’s FABLES – 20 short, flash, & microfiction masterpieces, including one where Long John Silver & Captain Smollett slip out between chapters for a smoke – are witty, graceful, sometimes eerie, & always beautiful. All can be downloaded free👇

@bookstodon

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/fables/

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #fantasy #shortfiction #shortstories #flashfiction

Ruth Richardson writing in THE LANCET, on how “The Body-Snatcher” shows Stevenson’s

“acute analysis of degrees of guilt; the complicit socialisation of maleness… the dark silences that can exist in social relations that pass as bonhomie”

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60144-1/fulltext

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #crimefiction #horror #gothic #shortfiction #shortstories #medicalhumanities

“Markheim sees himself in a way the nineteenth century often failed to: the story exposes the awkward truths of trading stolen goods, murdering innocent people, &, as the antique-dealer’s death implies, being selective with connections to the past”

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https://www.varsity.co.uk/arts/17647

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #crimefiction #horror #gothic #shortfiction #shortstories

“The watershed for the modern short story began in 1878 with… Stevenson’s ‘A Lodging for the Night’, with Allen going so far as to claim that the change to the specifically modern short story can be precisely dated at that point”

@litstudies

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https://may-on-the-short-story.blogspot.com/2015/05/short-story-month-2015-robert-louis.html

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #crimefiction

“In crime, as in all life, nothing is fixed or certain. Put another way, it is part of the mystery of being, which has its origin in religious faith, & Stevenson’s stories abound in mysteries”

🗡️ “A Lodging for the Night”
🪞 “Markheim”
💀 “The Body-Snatcher”

Available to download as a free ebook

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@bookstodon

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/sins-and-follies-2/

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #crimefiction #horror #gothic #shortfiction #shortstories

Great Lives: Robert Louis Stevenson

Currently on BBC Sounds: Douglas Dunn nominates Robert Louis Stevenson, explaining that the first book he ever read was 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 & that he has loved its author ever since. Biographer Claire Harman fills in the details of a short but energetic life that began in Edinburgh & ended on Samoa.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glx0g

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #Samoa

We’re all Henry Jekyll’s Bairns: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Enduring Influence on Scottish Literature

“Whether we choose to place any great importance on this idea or not, the idea that Scotland’s writing has such a duality at its heart is one that endures”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/11/were-all-henry-jekylls-bairns-robert-louis-stevensons-enduring-influence-on-scottish-literature/

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #JekyllandHyde

Tempting the Angels: “Olalla” as Gothic Vampire Narrative

“What truly disturbs in ‘Olalla’ is not the heroine […] It is the profoundly vampiric bond she forms with the hero – & the doubts it raises about his own precarious sanity”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/11/tempting-the-angels-olalla-as-gothic-vampire-narrative/

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #gothic #horror #vampires

Stevenson’s Shifting Viewpoint

“like the ‘jump cut’ in the cinema, [Stevenson’s] sudden changes of viewpoint, by surprising the reader, also call attention to the act of reading”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/11/stevensons-shifting-viewpoint/

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay

Stevenson on Style

“Lucidity, clarity of expression, inventiveness of images—these are not qualities that are easily duplicated… his limpid prose is the visible envy of other writers, yet the secret of its composition remains elusive”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/11/stevenson-on-style/

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #writing #writingcommunity

“Newspaper like in style, & not worthy of RLS”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT

“Class identity emerges as precariously external, superficial… the emphasis on the body gives the narrative a subversively egalitarian edge”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/11/newspaper-like-in-style-and-not-worthy-of-r-l-s-robert-louis-stevensons-the-amateur-emigrant/

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #emigration #class #classidentity

“Among the writers I have always read and, willy-nilly, have taken as a model is R. L. Stevenson”
—Italo Calvino

The Only Art is to Omit: a Robert Louis Stevenson special issue (2012)

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/11/editorial-the-only-art-is-to-omit-robert-louis-stevenson-special-issue/

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #ItaloCalvino

The original Deed of Gift is held by the Fairbanks Museum in St Johnsbury, Vermont, USA – shown here displayed on Samoan siapo (AKA tapa) cloth

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deed_of_Gift_by_Robert_Louis_Stevenson_-_Fairbanks_Museum_and_Planetarium_-_DSC04301.JPG

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay

Annie had no children of her own, & passed the birthday on to her niece, the Irish author Anita Leslie (1914–1985), who drove ambulances for the Free French in WW2 & won the Croix de Guerre. She in turn left the birthday to her granddaughter. Happy RLS Day Heather Finn!

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https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/birthday-present-from-robert-louis-stevenson-still-treasured-in-galway-1.1119021

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay

Unfortunately for POTUS, Annie kept up her part of the bargain, celebrating the gifted birthday with appropriate enthusiasm every 13 November, all her life. And although it carries her true date of birth, her tombstone bears the name “Anne Louisa Ide”

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#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay

Part of the deal was that Annie should add “Louisa” to her name (“at least in private”) & celebrate “by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats & receipt of gifts, compliments & copies of verse” – otherwise all rights to the birthday would revert to the President of the USA

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#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay

The Man Who Gave Away His Birthday – a Useless Information podcast

Robert Louis Stevenson was born #OTD, 13 November – but it’s not, strictly speaking, his birthday: in 1891 he gave the day to Annie Ide, the 14-year-old daughter of the US Commissioner to Samoa, who was unfortunate enough to have been born on Christmas Day

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https://uselessinformation.org/annie-louisa-ide-cockran/

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay